112 Quotes by B.C. Forbes

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook.

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Bragging often precedes begging.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.